Re: [tied] Re: Saussure laryngeal loss

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 49625
Date: 2007-08-24

On 2007-08-24 22:14, stlatos wrote:

> I'd say they're from a perfectly normal *kol-xW-mos (words in -no-
> don't have o-grade)...

Oh yes, they do. What are Gk. pórne: and pHo:né:, if not *por(h2)-nah2,
*bHoh2-nah2? Jens's derivation of both *-mo- and *-no- from *-mn-ó-
(thematised *-m(e)n-) looks perfectly reasonable to me.

Piotr